Abandoned Pages, part XIV: Unopened streets

Dear Diary,

This is the last project-specific part of this page.

Why?

You and I, dear Diary, have never treated private property as That Which Must Not Be Seen, have never fully respected the definition of private property Ken Ilgunas attacked in a book I recently discussed here.  So just finding out that undeveloped, or more often "unopened", streets were private property, as reported in that linked page, didn't convince me they need to be ignored.  (I've repeatedly considered a page about "Vacant Lots of North Seattle", for example.  That would be mostly private.)

More precisely, what I consider an unopened street is private property on which the city holds an easement, a public right of way.  And the thing is, time and again, the fact on the ground, whether initiated by the actual owners or merely tolerated by them (I usually don't know which), is that the unopened street is marked off.  It isn't in fact treated just like the rest of their properties, and is fairly often, explicitly or implicitly, a public way.  When it isn't, again often enough, it's because it's, explicitly or implicitly, a public park.  Which is obviously part of our remit, dear Diary.

So I have no interest in reporting on ways the owners of unopened streets use them privately, but I'm curious about ways they're used more or less publicly.

Anyway, I already did report on most of the six unopened streets of downtown Seattle, so why not report on the 197 in North Seattle?  More than half of them are north of 85th St, so it's certainly hiking.

What?

Nothing yet.

Why not?

Time.  200 more places to visit while building my baseline for North Seattle is a hard no.

What now?

If I understand correctly, the current rule is that I don't have to take a class in summer 2027 after all.  Now, that's the season I expect to build a baseline downtown and near there, and I'll be working, or homeless, by then.  So it isn't a given that I can do these that summer, but the summer after, 2028, there'll be no baselines to build, no classes, and no reason not to go.

Well, dear Diary, we may meet sometime in the next three hard days, but certainly in the later part of this week.  Until then, happy days and nights.